Arab Woman Columnist Marks International Women's Day With Sarcastic Article.

Arab Woman Columnist Marks International Women's Day With Sarcastic Article. HT: Memri.

On the occasion of International Women's Day, columnist Suha Al-Jundi, who writes on the liberal website Elaph, penned a sarcastic article in which she enumerated various Islamic laws and customs that harm women, humiliate them, and discriminate against them, such as the inheritance, marriage and divorce laws. 

"I wish to celebrate the lofty status which Islam has granted to the woman and the great respect it has for her, which is manifested in the following ways:

"1. A woman's testimony has half the weight of a man's, since she is feeble-minded and ruled by her emotions. Hence, for her testimony to be accepted, she must find another woman who witnessed the crime [to corroborate her story]. Otherwise she must stay home and remain silent, rather than tell the truth [about what she knows].

"2. Islam tasks the man with supporting his wife and children, [whether he is married or divorced]. That is why we do not see lines of women children and knocking on the doors of the courts for years, [just] so that the divorced women, and even those who are not divorced, receive the money to which they and their children are entitled. This, according to the verse "and support them according to your means" [Koran 65:7], which all men are careful to fulfill [even] without being forced by the courts – for men are pious and will not conceivably spare their children [support] out of miserliness, or claim to be financially distressed. Eventually the mother and her children receive [only] a few dirhams, because that is all the man can [afford]...

"3. A man may take four wives, even if his salary is meagre and his (physical) abilities limited. That is simply the nature of mammals who live in packs of one male and several females. Religious law must conform to this nature. Read the full 'list' here.